"We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out"
- Martin Sheen
About this Quote
Martin Sheen's quote speaks to the duty of the current generation to undo the damage of the past. He is referring to the atomic bomb, which was developed and utilized during World War II. He is suggesting that the existing generation, which was not alive during the war, should take duty for the repercussions of the bomb and work to undo the damage it caused. He is contacting the current generation to be the one to take the initiative to remove the bomb from the world. He is emphasizing the importance of taking action to avoid more destruction and to produce a better future. His words are a suggestion that we need to take obligation for our actions and make every effort to make the world a better location.
This quote is written / told by Martin Sheen somewhere between August 3, 1940 and today. He was a famous Actor from USA.
The author also have 34 other quotes.
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"On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes"
"I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive"
"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed"
